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: Katharine Brentzel- RE: CLASS lookouts

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"Matteson, Lois. )is J" \! "'Katherine Brentzel" 3/26/0310:29AM RE: CLASS lookouts

HI: I'jn attaching a few documents with responses to the questions. First, I did the namechecks and copied the output to a word doc. - MEMO MARCH 25.DOC. The format is a little different - the unique ID appears to the right of the name - but all the data is the same. The excel sheets are for the Refusal Code table and the Site Code table.

Re question #4 - ^es, State ancl IN^hav«,starKJardizQd refusal codes for the sections of Uv^Jii^ both agencies'use, so a *6c1" is the same in both agencies! Therf art some codes unique to one agency or the other. For example* 00* Is unique to State. Question 6 should be addressed to VO. —Original Message— From: Katherine Brentzel [mailtoj Sftnt! Tuesday. March 25. 2003 3:20 PM To|

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Subject: CLASS lookouts Hi Lots:

Thanks once again for providing me with the CLASS lookouts for the visa revocation cases that GAO is reviewing. I have a few quick questions for you: were 2 people for whom I neglected to give you names and biographies. Could you please do a CLASS check for them? J

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2. Could you please run this guy again - 1 think you may have entered his COB incorrectly and I want to double check that the output doesn't change: \:

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Katherine Brentzef-RE: CLASS lookouts

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GIVEN NAME:[ DOB: 28-Jun-76 PQB: SARB Nationality: SARB Passport! I can either pick up these additional CLASS runs, or, if possible, you could fax them fbi |to my attention. 3. When I met with you earlier, you printed me a copy of the "Visa Refusal Code Table" from your intranet. The "visa refusal description" column got cut off when you printed it but you mentioned that you could get someone to format it correctly so that this would not happen. At the time, I thought the cut-off version would be okay, but now I'm wondering if you'd be able to get it formatted so that it's not cut off? I didn't realize at the time how crucial the "visa refusal description" column was! 4. Do you know if INS and State have standardized refusal codes? For example, would a "6C" refusal code on an INS record and a State record meaki the same thing? 5. Do you have a document which lists the post abrreviation codes? For example, I've been able to guess that JDD is Jeddah and that ISL is Islamabad, but a table of the post abbreviation codes would be very helpful. 6. Last question, I promise. Do you know when the NSER and VRVK refusal codes were created? I have a cable from the Visa Office which states that VRVK wis created in August 2002, yet in some of the CLASS print-outs I received from you, I've seen the VRVK show up in records that appear to have been created before August 2002. Also, I believe that NSER (the alien registration program) was not started until September 2002; yet I have seen CLASS entries with the NSER refusal code as early as February 2002.1 don't understand why this would be! Can lookouts be edited at a later date? If you don't know the answer to this mystery, is there sohneone else to whom you could refer me? THANKS so much foryour help. As I said, for all of the requested docs/CLASS runs, I can either pick them up at your convenience or you could fax them to me aj I Kate

Kate Brentzel Analyst International Affairs and Trade Team United States General Accounting Office

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